Ronald H. Coase was one of the most interesting and influential economists of his century. He was born in 1910 in a suburb of London and recently passed away at the age of 102 in Chicago, close to the ...

The Observer: Professor Coase said many times that the Coase Theorem should be understood as saying that transaction costs cannot be neglected and that the initial allocation of property rights ...

Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. I think the success of the Coase Theorem — because it’s discussed all over the place — is an interesting illustration of what’s wrong with economics ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the economics of the sports industry. The Coase Theorem - postulated by economist Ronald Coase in 1937 which led to a ...

Ronald Coase was one of those economists whose contributions were so significant and so longstanding that you assumed he had to be dead. But he wasn't, until yesterday, when he died at the age of 102.

Theme of the Lecture: when can institutions not improve efficiency? When can we not improve upon market outcomes? Coase Theorem: Efficiency and Bargaining -- closely related to value maximization.

EARLIER this week Ronald Coase, a winner of the economics Nobel and one of the most important economists of the past century, died at 102. This week's Free exchange column looks at his life and ...

At 101 years old, renowned University of Chicago Law School economist Ronald H. Coasehas never stopped generating new ideas or giving his witty, confident take on past intellectual skirmishes. His ...

Ronald Coase, a British-born University of Chicago economist whose Nobel Prize-winning work on the role of corporations stemmed from visits in the early 1930s to American companies including Ford ...

Editor's note: On September 2, 2013 Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase, died at the age of 102. Coase had a profound influence on China's reform and opening-up. In 2008 he hosted an international seminar on ...